NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 143 
recent years the only other occurrence that I am aware of is the 
one recorded in The Field of 3rd June 1916, as having been seen 
on 24th May of that year. William E. Glegg. 
The Ancient Yew in Woodford Churchyard.—A 
copy of Richard Warner’s “ Plantae Woodfordienses,” 1771, 
in the Club’s Library (presented by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin in 1915), 
includes an interleaved note opposite Warner’s record of 
Taxus baccata” “ The Eugh or Yew Tree,” (page 166), as under, 
written in faded ink :— 
“ A most remarkable one in Woodford/ 
“ Church Yard, the Dimensions of/ 
“ which, as taken by Mr. Warner and/ 
“ myself in 1774, and intended to/ 
“ have been inserted by him in the/ 
“ second Edition of this Work, had/ 
“ he lived to publish it, are as/ 
“ follow/ Feet. Inches. 
“ The Circumference of the Stem 
close to the Ground 
11 
: 5 / 
Do. of Do. 5 feet from Do. .. 
• • 15 
: 2/ 
Do. of Do. 7 Do. from Do. 
where it throws out/ 
13 large Branches, some of/ 
.. 17 
: 6/ 
which are in Circumference 
besides several smaller ones./ 
• • 3 
• 9 / 
Height 
•• 37 
: 0/ 
Circumference of the Branches 
.. 168 
: 0/ 
“ J. Shepard, R[ector] of Woodford. /1775.”/ 
This famous tree, which is still flourishing, is mentioned 
by “ A Gentleman,” Dr. Hughson, Lyson, Mrs. Ogborne, Coller, 
Christy, and other topographers of Essex, but the above record 
is probably the oldest detailed account of the Woodford Yew, 
and is worthy of preservation by reason of its careful and well- 
attested nature. 
To afford some data as to the rate of growth of this ancient 
Yew, Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., and Mr. A. Bruce Jackson, A.L.S., 
at my request, carefully measured the tree on January 4th 1920, 
with the following results :— 
Girth of trunk close to the ground .. 12ft. 2jin. 
Do. at 3 feet above ground .. 15ft. 2|in. 
Do. at 4ft. 3m. above ground 16ft. 9m. 
Percy Thompson. 
